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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 - 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What illusion is posed by the author in Chapter 6 when he asks about how many animals were brought upon the ark?
(a) The Noah Illusion.
(b) The Muller-Lyer illusion.The
(c) The Moses Illusion.
(d) The Biblical Illusion.

2. What are the subjects in the gorilla study instructed to count in the short film?
(a) Scores on a video game.
(b) Basketball passes.
(c) Baseball throws.
(d) Seconds while a woman runs.

3. What statistician illustrated the ease with which people see patterns where none exist?
(a) Christopher Chabris.
(b) Eckhard Hess.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) William Feller.

4. Who created a study article called "Becoming Famous Overnight"?
(a) Jackson Beatty.
(b) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(c) Eckhard Hess.
(d) Larry Jacoby.

5. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the state of being out of keeping with the norm or inconsistent?
(a) Incongruity.
(b) Articluation.
(c) Depletion.
(d) Recognition.

Short Answer Questions

1. Amos Tversky, Tom Gilovich, and Robert Vallone conducted a study of misperceptions and randomness in what sport?

2. What German psychologists offered the most compelling demonstrations of the role of associative coherence in anchoring, according to the author?

3. When did the Yom Kippur War break out?

4. Who is the author of The Black Swan?

5. Who is declared by the author as the hero of the book in Chapter 1?

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